Shakespeare Survey 73: Shakespeare and the City (Shakespeare Survey, Series Number 73)

Cambridge University Press, 9/17/2020
EAN 9781108830539, ISBN10: 1108830536

Hardcover, 312 pages, 24.8 x 19 x 1.9 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies and of the year's major British performances. The theme for Volume 73 is 'Shakespeare and the City'. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/collections/shakespeare-survey This fully searchable resource enables users to browse by author, essay and volume, search by play, theme and topic and save and bookmark their results.

1. Continental Shakespeare Karen Newman
2. The stranger at the door
belonging in Shakespeare's Ephesus Nandini Das
3. City origins, lost identities and print errors in The Comedy of Errors Alice Leonard
4. The circulation of youthful energy on the early modern London stage
migration, intertheatricality, and 'growing to common players' Harry R. McCarthy
5. In conversation with Shakespeare in Jacobean London
social insanity and its taming schools in 1 and 2 Honest Whore Chi-Fang Sophia Li
6. Hearing voices
signal vs urban noise in Coriolanus and Augustine's Confessions Lars Engle
7. Caesar and Lear in Hong Kong
appropriating Shakespeare to express the inexpressible Miriam Lau Leung Che
8. Before we sleep
Macbeth and the curtain lecture Neil Rhodes
9. 'The story shall be changed'
antique fables and agency in A Midsummer Night's Dream Charlotte Scott
10. A lawful magic
new worlds of precedent in Mabo and The Winter's Tale Nicholas Luke
11. 'Cabined, cribbed, confined'
advice to actors and the priorities of Shakespearean scholarship' Michael Cordner
12. 'What country, friends, is this?'
Tim Supple's Twelfth Night revisited Peter J. Smith
13. Through a glass darkly
Sophie Okonedo's Margaret as racial other in The Hollow Crown
The Wars of the Roses Jennie M. Votava
14. 'Who's there?'
Britain's twenty-first century obsession with celebrity Hamlet (2008-2018) Gemma Kate Allred
15. Shakespearean performance in England 2019 Stephen Purcell and Paul Prescott
16. Professional Shakespeare productions in the British Isles 2018 James Shaw
17. Critical studies Charlotte Scott
18. Shakespeare in performance Russell Jackson
19. Editions and textual studies Peter Kirwan.